One.

In the spring of the twenty-first year of King Ping, a girl sued everyone in her hometown in front of King Ping.

Two.

It was an excellent morning, it happened to be a rest day, a few days ago because of Wang Yiliang's troubles I was disturbed, yesterday I found six sisters and eight sisters and Mrs. to rub mahjong all night, after rubbing I felt hungry, I barbecued and ate in the Xiangfu garden, and I went back to sleep in each room when it was almost dawn, I didn't think that I had just fallen asleep for a short time, and the voice of Qiu Ming sounded in my ears: "Xiangye, Xiangye." ”

"Get out..."

"When a word comes from the palace, His Majesty tells you to enter the palace immediately." Qiu Ming said, "Xiangye, don't get out, get up quickly, it's already three quarters of the hour." ”

I rolled over and got out of bed with great reluctance, and the lady who was sleeping next to me was also dazed, and pulled me back to sleep, and said, "Why are you so noisy, what are you doing when you fall asleep and get up again?" ”

"Your Majesty is urgently calling, you continue to sleep." I covered her with the quilt, "Autumn tea, change clothes." ”

Qiu Ming came in from outside the door, quickly helped me put on my court clothes, I got into the carriage in a daze, I sat in the carriage and I was drowsy, and I couldn't remember how I got out of the carriage and how I walked outside the Beichen Palace. When I reacted, I was already at the gate of the Beichen Palace. I rubbed my eyes, pulled myself together, and walked in.

"Minister Zhou Yulan see Your Majesty, Your Majesty Wan'an. See National Teacher. ”

"Give a seat." Ping Wang Road. On weekdays, if it wasn't for the court, King Ping was in a good mood, or if the discussion was not about national political issues, King Ping would let us sit and discuss things.

As soon as I sat down, I found He Yunsheng sitting next to me, sleepy-eyed, crooked to the side, eyelids fighting. and Sun Yuji, although she was sitting in a precarious position, she couldn't cover her anger when she got up.

"I called you here today for last night's paper." King Ping said, "Liu Yune of Weisheng Village, Yuzhou, sued the villagers of Weisheng Village, and the crime was that the river god married him. ”

I was stunned, I heard that the villages along the river in Chenguo used to have a tradition of marrying the river god, but that's just a legend, right? And the royal ... The royal court may have something to do with me, does it have anything to do with this Hou Ye who has nothing to do and this imperial doctor?

"Lone originally wanted to hand over this matter to Li Aiqing, but the national teacher said that it would be good for you to go through the experience. After all, no one has sued for a long time. "Ping Wang said.

The national teacher said: "Osheng Village is an isolated village and doesn't like outsiders, so you don't go with great fanfare, just pretend to be a passerby in a low-key manner." I'm afraid that you will be alone and will not know martial arts, so He Yunsheng will go with you, as for Sun Yuji, in case you are a little injured, it is good for her to be by your side. ”

I could only receive the order, and after kowtowing, He Yunsheng seemed to have just woken up and asked me in a low voice: "Where are we going?" ”

"Yushu."

"Yushu? Yushu is good. He immediately smiled.

"It's Oyu Village in Yushu, not Yushu City." I said, "I'll report to you first, we will definitely not go to Huamanlou, and we will not stay in the best hotels in Yuzhou." There are no singers, no food, none of the things you think. ”

He Yunsheng was stunned for a long time: "Then go to a ghost?" ”

There was a precedent of suing the royal court before, there was a big drum on the right side of the entrance of the Yangri Palace, and no one knocked on weekdays, only the person who sued the royal court would knock. In recent decades, no one has sued the emperor, and a layer of dust has fallen on the drum. Generally speaking, there is a big grievance, or a problem that the government can't solve, or some supernatural phenomenon, which I have never experienced, and I am a little excited at this time.

The girl who came to sue the royal court is now living in the Fuyun Hotel in Wucheng, and the three of us immediately rushed to the Fuyun Hotel, all wanting to meet this girl who sued everyone in her hometown in front of the Son of Heaven.

We met Liu Yune at the hotel, she was very beautiful, but her expression was faint, and she didn't seem to like to talk much. When he saw us come in, he just saluted, and there was no superfluous word. He Yunsheng thinks he is a master of pick-up, and he has nothing to say when he meets Liu Yune.

is also a girl, Sun Yuji took on the task of communicating with her: "Miss Liu, can you tell us about your village first?" ”

"Human lives are at stake, please leave immediately." Liu Yune only said, "On the way, I will tell you everything in detail." ”

The mother river of Chenguo, Lin Zhong River, flows down from the north peak of Guxi Mountain, like a necklace across Chenguo, flows into Wuguo, and then flows into the sea. As for why it is isolated, it is because there is a large forest at the entrance of this existence, and outsiders basically can't get around this forest, so no one wants to come in. Over time, the village has developed an invisible boundary from the outside. There is a tradition in this village since ancient times, that is, every ten years on the day when the dragon raises its head, it is necessary to marry the river god.

Every ten years, a girl is chosen from among the villagers to marry the river god.

"Marry the river god... Is it to throw yourself into the river to feed the fish? He Yunsheng sat in the carriage, idle and bored to play with Sun Yuji and flip the flower rope.

"This folk style is too barbaric." Sun Yuji acquiesced, "Chenguo kills people to be imprisoned for life, and now there is such a thing in civilized society, it is really appalling." ”

"The last time the river god married, I was young, but I remember that I put people in a wooden tube, and the wooden tube was decorated to look like a new house, and the girl had to wear a wedding dress; There are stones in the wooden tube, which will sink to the bottom of the river. Liu Yuni said, "This year I sent a little purple bead, I don't want her to have such a fate." ”

"Wooden tubes? What wood is it made of? "I'm in high spirits.

"Zhou Yulan, your concerns are so strange." He Yunsheng said to me, "Hey, by the way, what are the requirements for choosing a girl?" Are all those girls beautiful? ”

Hearing this, I raised my foot and kicked him, and the older I grew up, the more I couldn't do anything about him, He Yunsheng flexibly avoided it, caused me to kick on the plank, and then laughed at me happily.

"Listening to my father, it seems to be called Shenshuimu."

"Sinking wood, it's unlucky to hear it." Sun Yuji said.

"Sinking wood..."I thought for a while, "The eastern part of the country does produce sinking wood, and the sinking wood is the trunk of the sinking tree, which has a thick trunk, large branches and leaves, and is lush, but this kind of wood is more widely used to ward off evil spirits." ”

"Ward off evil spirits? Do you make a mahogany sword? He Yunsheng asked.

"That's not it, it's fishermen who use it to ward off evil spirits, because the sinking wood has a unique function, that is, mosquitoes are not close, and the boat made of sinking wood will not even get close to the fish, so the fishermen will put a piece of sinking wood on the boat every time before sailing, asking for peace." I said, "Do you have a lot of sunken trees in your village?" ”

"I don't know, but didn't I mention that there's a forest outside our village? It was made of the tree there, and we called it the incense tree. Liu Yu thought about it again, "When you say that, I think of it, there are indeed no mosquitoes in Weisheng Village all year round. ”

"A sunken tree... The Shen Tree grows very slowly, and it takes a long, long time to grow into a large forest..."I suddenly became interested in this Osheng Village, and asked her, "Then what do you people in this village usually rely on for a living?" ”

"Fishing, weaving, everything. It's just that we don't communicate much with the outside world, and every time it's the season to harvest the fish, we make the fish and a few people in the village take it outside the village to sell. The fish here is better than the outside, and the fish is fatty, so it is still very popular. "The people in the village are more repulsive to outsiders, and the language we speak is also the dialect of the countryside of Yuzhou. ”

"But you speak very well in Chenguo Wucheng's voice." I said.

Liu Yune was silent for a while: "Because my father was originally not from Osheng Village, he is from Wucheng." ”

"No wonder, I always think your Mandarin is more standard than mine." He Yunsheng immediately patted his ass.

"Thanks to you, I've been in Wucheng for twenty years, and I'm embarrassed to say it." Sun Yuji immediately embarrassed him.

"The front is our village, you just say that you are here to buy fish, and I will enter the village when the time comes." Liu Yuni said, "Recently, it is the season to marry the river god, and the village is very lively, and they can't take care of you." ”

So the three of us disguised ourselves as merchants and entered Oyu Village.